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Tupac's final words revealed by police officer on scene of murder

(RollingStone.com)
-- The first police officer at the scene of Tupac Shakur's 1996
drive-by murder has revealed the last words spoken by the late rap
legend. And they're not exactly peaceful.

"He looked at me, and he
took a breath to get the words out, and he opened his mouth," says Chris
Carroll, a retired sergeant with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
Department, in a new feature with Vegas Seven. "And then the words came out: 'F**k you.'"

Shakur was shot multiple
times on September 7th, 1996. After leaving a boxing match with former
Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, the rapper and his bodyguards got
into a scuffle with 21-year-old Crips gang member Orlando Anderson in
the lobby of the MGM Grand casino. Carroll, who worked with the city's
bike patrol unit, had also been watching the same Mike Tyson fight, but
was unaware of the brawl taking place in the lobby.

Later, a white Cadillac
pulled up beside Knight and Shakur while they were stopped at a traffic
light and one man began shooting out of the back window. Carroll was the
first officer to respond to the grisly scene.

"I grab the car door and
I'm trying to open it, but I can't get it open," he says. "[Knight]
keeps coming up on my back, so I'm pointing my gun at him. I'm pointing
it at the car. I'm yelling, 'You guys lay down! And you, get the
away from me!' And every time I'd point the gun at him, he'd back off
and even lift his hands up, like 'All right! All right!' So I'd go back
to the car, and here he comes again. I'm like, 'F**ker, back off!' This
guy is huge, and the whole time he's running around at the scene, he's
gushing blood from his head. Gushing blood! I mean the guy had clearly
been hit in the head, but he had all his faculties. I couldn't believe
he was running around and doing what he was doing, yelling back and
forth."

Carroll says when he
finally was able to open the door, Shakur's limp body fell out of the
vehicle, "like he was leaning against the door."

"So I grabbed him with my
left arm, and he falls into me, and I've still got my gun in the other
hand," he continues. "He's covered with blood, and I immediately notice
that the guy's got a ton of gold on -- a necklace and other jewelry --
and all of the gold is covered in blood. That has always left an image
in my mind. . . After I pulled him out, Suge starts yelling at him,
'Pac! Pac!' And he just keeps yelling it. And the guy I'm holding is
trying to yell back at him. He's sitting up and he's struggling to get
the words out, but he can't really do it. And as Suge is yelling 'Pac!,'
I look down and I realize that this is Tupac Shakur."

Carroll says he
attempted to get a "dying declaration" of a potential suspect from
Shakur, but the rapper was ignoring him at first.

"And then I saw in his
face, in his movements, all of a sudden in the snap of a finger, he
changed," he says. "And he went from struggling to speak, being
noncooperative, to an 'I'm at peace' type of thing. Just like that. . .
He went from fighting to 'I can't do it.' And when he made that
transition, he looked at me, and he's looking right in my eyes. And
that's when I looked at him and said one more time, 'Who shot you?'. . .
He looked at me and he took a breath to get the words out, and he
opened his mouth, and I thought I was actually going to get some
cooperation. And then the words came out: 'F**k you.' After that, he
started gurgling and slipping out of consciousness."

So why is Carroll coming
forward with with information in 2014? Two reasons: Retiring from the
Metro has allowed him the freedom to speak about the homicide case
without being reprimanded ("It's been almost 18 years," he says. There's
clearly never going to be a court case on this."), and he also didn't
want "Tupac to be a martyr or a hero because he told the cops 'F**k
you.'"

Carroll says Shakur
never spoke another word -- remaining silent even when another officer
tried to draw out a declaration in the ambulance.

"As soon as he got to
the hospital, he went into surgery and was heavily sedated, and I guess
he went into a coma and really never came out of that, until they took
him off of life support," he continues. "So that moment I talked to him
was his last real living moment where he was speaking. I talked to the
cop who rode in the ambulance with him. He said Tupac never came out of
it, and he never said anything at the hospital. There was nothing else."

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